foreign policy

• K said in his secret speech that conflict between capitalism and communism was inevitable
• K travelled and went abroad to show communication with west
• K said there should be 'mutually assured destruction'
• in 1962 K offered newly communist Cuba Russian missiles as protection against America, when detected US set up a naval blockade on Cuba
• 1963 improving relations as signing first test ban treaty; forbade testing of nuclear weapons in atmosphere
• wanted peaceful co-existance
• Moscow-Washington hotline was established to better communication and give direct phone; avoid war and reduce tensions
• 1960 reduction of army from 3.6 million to 2.4
• 1960 Russian air force were shot down by US spy plane, capturing pilot
• thousands of east Germans fled west
• 1963 agreement resulted in criticism from China under Mao as K said he was 'running dogs of capitalism'
• Cuban Missile crisis: Jupiter Missiles were removed in public, yet US get to removed Turkish missiles in secret
• in 1957 Sputnik 1 launched into orbit, emitting electronic signals as it went; Russians greeted Americans with 'beep beep' in Moscow
• Later Sputnik II put the first living creature, a dog called Laika, to celebrate the 40th anniversery of the revolution
• in 1959 the USSR planted a red flag on the moon and took photos of the dark side of the moon, which had never been seen ebfore
• sent first man in space, Yuri Gagarin in 1961
• Valentina Tereshkova became first women in space
• huge investments made
• no means of bringing dog home safely so he died in space
• K wanted to prove that communist USSR could equal the USA by July 1969 America sent two men to walk on the moon
• USSR putting a lot of resources into space caused resentment as continued bad living conditions
• 1960 reduced Standing army
• 1961 began building the Berlin wall
• failed to control Hungary
• July 1953 Korea war; peace agreement signed
• 1953/4 the USA made their first hydrogen bomb in 1952. Russians had done the same by 1954
• 1954 in USA McCarthyism was fading, Eisenhower announced that the American people wanted friendship with the USSR
• 1954 Geneva conference: the USSR, USA and Britain met help to discuss the French withdrawal from the Indochina (Vietnam) and so ended the Indochina war
• by 1955, the total number of American bombers capable of attacking the USSR with nuclear missiles had risen to 1350. The Soviets had around 350 such bombers
• 1955 the Warsaw pact was set up in 1955. This was seen as a rival to NATO
• 1955 USSR signed a peace treaty with Austria and withdrew it's army of occupation which had been there since 1945
• 1955 K attended a conference in Geneva and met with British PM and USA to establish relations
• 1955 Russia agreed to give up military bases in Finland
• K said in a speech 'whether the capitalists like it or not, the socialists and the capitalists have to live side by side on one planet'
• 1955 Russia lifted it's long standing veto on the admission of 16 new members to the UN
• 1956 the 20th party congress, K emphasised that war was not inevitable between the USSR and west
• 1956 Polish uprising, Russian military is used to quell the uprising. The USA and the western allies did not intervene
• 1956 Russia uses military force to quell Hungarian uprising. USA and the western allies did not intervene
• 1957 Russia developed ICBMs, powerful nuclear missiles which could reach USA. USA made their own and placed them in Turkey
• 1957 Russians launched Sputnik